"Sir we are a safe enough distance away to jump." "Good good whenever your ready then." "Jump completed sir." "Ok now start scanning the asteroid field for any mineral resources." "Yes sir." "Launch two squadrons of fighters and an al'kesh. Have the fighters go into the asteroid field and the al'kesh go to the other side to scan the field. They are to keep pase with us and send there sensor data to us." "By your command sir."
It took a few hours to get the ships and fighters organized. After four hours of scanning the asteroid field and finding a lot of asteroids containing a wide assortment of resources. The ranged from a few meters across to a few thousand kilometres. I had Gamma start locating the best places to start mining.
After a couple more loooong hours of nothing but asteroids. I went to my quarters to eat and sleep. It seemed like I just closed my eyes when when my kara kesh started going off. "Yes this better be good." "Sir we're detecting a unknown energy signal." "How far away?" "That's difficult to tell sir it's intermittent and I can't get a good fix on it." "Ok launch a al'kesh to investigate." "Yes milord." "I'm going back to sleep don't wake me unless it's important." "Yes sir."
"Beta I want you to take an al'kesh, a squad of marines, four engineers and two squadrons of fighters to investigate the energy signal." "Yes Alpha." As I get to the launch bay the marines and pilots are still getting into the ships. "Alright get your metal butts in gear we've got a mission. MOVE IT! MOVE IT!"
"Finally it took yall long enough. Tell the fighters to launch first." "Yes sir." "Ok I want the fighters to go 1200 meter from us and each other. I want us to be the back point of a triangle. Notify me as soon as they are in position." "Yes sir."
"Sir the squadrons are in position." "Ok let's get started ahead 1/2." "Yes sir." "Tell the fighters to switch to activate sensors." "Done sir." "Set course for the last known position of the anomaly." "Course laid in sir."
It took six long hours for us to finnaly come into visual range of the unknown contact.
"Is that a beliskner class battleship?" "Yes sir it appears that it is." "What in the fracking hell is it doing here?" "I don't know sir." "That was a rhetorical question you idiot.
Ok send a report to lord Typhoeus telling him what we found and that we are going to see if we can board the ship."
"Ok the fighters will remain here we will head tword the ship. Send the orders to the fighters." "Orders received sir." "Ok take us in slowly but be ready to flip a bitch and get us out of here quick " "Understood sir."
*Ship aproching. Ship identified Gou'uld Al'kesh. No life signs detected. Weapon systems not active. Threat:minimal/nonexistent. Defensive action :none *
After an hour of creaping up we were finally able to dock. Once we had a hard seal. We boarded the beliskner. When we got onboard there was no light of any kind so we had to activate our night vision.
"Ok this is how I want this to go. One fire teem goes withd the engineers to the engine room. The second comes with me to the bridge. And the third will secure the rest of the ship. Let me know if you find anything as to why this ship is here. And who's it is/was." "Yes sir." "Move out."
"Hold yall can read asgard right?" "No sir I don't have it in my data files." "Ok I'm assuming that it's the same with all of you correct?" "Yes sir." "Yes sir." "Yes sir." "Yes sir." "Ok I'm going to transmit a data burst with the pertinent files. When you get them access and install in your language files."
"Yes sir." "You got them installed?" "Yes sir." "Ok carry out your orders." "Sir."
"Ok we're here finally. There's no power to any of the consoles. Don't touch anything. One of you call and get me a sitrep on the other fire teams." "Yes sir." "Sir Meidias has reported in they haven't found anything yet."
"Ok tell them to keep at it." "Sir." "Nysa and the engineers have just made it to the engine room sir." "Ok ask her how long till they can restore power." "The chief engineer said it would be about an hour sir."
"Why that long?" "He wants to run diagnostics and system checks. We don't know how long this ship has been sitting here sir."
"It's been over an hour! Contact Nysa and see what the problem is." "On it sir." "Sir the chief engineer apologizes for the wait. One of the diagnostics took longer than he thought it would. He shall have power restored in a few minouts." "Well tell him to hurry up."
"Finnaly. Start running system checks on every system." "Sir the systems checkout." "Ok bring the environmental systems online and the internal sensors ." "Systems up and running sir." "Ok scann the ship and see if there are any intruders or blind spots." "Scann complete sir no intruders detected. I'm unable to get readings from main cargo holds A and B." "Contact Meidias and have his team check them out and report back." "By your command sir." "Continue to activate systems and run checks on them. I'll try and hack into the main computer. To try and see who's ship this was and what he/she were doing here." "Ok I've found out whose ship this was. I it belonged to Kvasir and from what this says has been sitting here for roughly four thousand years. Now to find out why." "Sir I have a report from Medon." "Who?" "Medon sir he's Meidias's second." "Why is he reporting and not Meidias?" "Meidias sent him to check cargo hold B Sir." "Oh OK what's his report?" "He reported that the entire hold is full of computer cores. And he's asking what you want him to do?" "Tell him to hold position outside the hold door and I'll come and check out the computers when I can." Yes sir." "Ok back to work."
"Sir Meidias is reporting in now." "Ok I needed a break anyway." "His report is the same as Medons." "What more computer cores?" "Yes sir." "Why would a Bilskirnir need with two cargo holds filled with computer cores? Tell him the same as Meidias." "Yes sir."
"Let me try this one mo'gin. No. No. No. Ah ha Got you! Holy Frack! You friggin genius." "Sir?" "What?" "Who is a genius and why?" "Oh Kvasir as to why he cracked the replicators code. He could have controlled them if he was still alive. He had an asteroid base that he was working in. But it self-destructed before he could get back to the ship.
Apparently one of the specimens broke containment and activated the self-destruct."
"So what does that mean for us sir?" "Well if were able to make enough replicator blocks
they could help upgrade/build ships and stations." "Ok now I'm going to check out the cargo holds. I'll be back."
"Ok let's see what we have in cargo hold B. Medon did yall see any controls when yall were in there?" "Yes sir it was about ten feet to your right after you enter." "Ok stay here I'll go see what's what." "Sir yes sir." "Ok let's see what we have here. Sweet. Naw it can't be. But it is. Holy Frackin hell!" "What sir?" "Do you know what is stored in the computer cores? No of course you don't. Ok I'm gonna tell you. These cores have the entire asgard population stored in them." "Aren't the asgard all dead sir?" "Yes but when an asgard dies there consciousness gets uploaded into a computer so that it can be downloaded into a new body." "So we have all of them stored in here?" "Yep that's right."
"What are we going to do sir?" "That's not my decision to make were going to let Lord Typhoeus make that decision." "Yes sir. What do you want us to do now?" "Stay here. Now I'm going to check hold A." "Sir one more question its some thin that's been buggin me for a little while." "Ok ask away." "How did Kvasir get all those cores in the first place?" "He brought them obliviously." "Sir why would he bring I don't know how many cores when he needed the space for all the supplies to build the asteroid base. They take up to much room sir. There's not much room left with them in there." "I'll have to think on that thanks for bringin it to my attention."
"Ok what do we have here Meidias?" "From what Medon told me is another hold full of cores sir." "Ok did you see a control console when you were in there?" "Yes sir its 15 feet inside. You can't miss it sir." "Ok thanks now let's see what's on thease cores."
